A total of 5,228 wildfires, like this one on Juniper Road in Pender County, destroyed 21 homes and nearly 100,000 acres of forestland last year in North Carolina.
It’s one of the more famous quotes found in TV commercials and on posters. Smokey Bear points at you with shovel in hand and wraps up the message [...]

Elise Johnson has cooked native cuisine from all around the world, ranging from her ancestral home of Portugal, to India, Uzbekistan, South Africa, and of course, North Carolina.
No matter how simple or complicated the dish, Johnson declares that every one of her recipes and cooking techniques all contain the same ingredient.
“Love,” she says about cooking, [...]

Just when Kent Fann thought he wanted to quit the agriculture business altogether, a life-changing event caused the Sampson County Farm Bureau member to want to return to the family farm as quickly as possible. That was 25 years ago.
Fann suffered a spinal cord injury during a go-kart accident, leaving him without the ability to [...]

Since 1986, the two-acre pond strategically located on Danny McConnell’s farm in Henderson County has been a plant lifeline during both frosts and drought-like conditions.
McConnell, who serves as county president and on the state board of directors, sends water through a state-approved pump to irrigate peppers, cucumbers, asparagus and other vegetables that end up on [...]

Back in 1958, North Carolina Farm Bureau established a scholarship fund in honor of R. Flake Shaw, a Guilford County farmer who served as executive vice president and helped to steer the organization through a critical point in its history.
Now, the R. Flake Shaw Scholarship has aided more than 250 aspiring agriculture professionals to acquire [...]

Nestled within mountain slopes dotted with some of the best Christmas tree farms in North Carolina is the Alleghany Challenge Course, a facility that’s become a fixture within the county school system. Organizers hope to develop it even further.
The Alleghany Challenge Course is derived from the ideas and enthusiasm of Glenn Wing, a Massachusetts native [...]

As the name implies, the North Carolina Strawberry Project aims to prove the tasty fruit can be used for more than just a fresh salad or as a key ingredient in a pie or cake. Plant breeding experts and culinary authorities are joining forces to strengthen many aspects of North Carolina’s agriculture economy—especially the strawberry [...]

Before he preached in front of more than 200 million people in 185 different countries, Rev. Billy Graham’s Christian character roots took hold on the family farm outside of Charlotte. Graham recalls a simpler time when his younger days revolved around chores and the fruit of that labor.
“For a child of the Roaring ’20s who [...]

Stanly County Farm Bureau Board Member Ronnie Burleson usually doesn’t know exactly where the final product of his family grown cotton will land. The cotton could be made into a pair of socks that ends up in Colorado but first came through the Philippines. Or Burleson’s crop could be sewn into a sweatshirt that was [...]

For about half of the year, sea turtles often can be found somewhere in North Carolina waters. They likely could be seen from a pier in the Atlantic Ocean, but it’s possible for the endangered, highly thought of reptiles to be found in portions of the Pamlico Sound or Cape Fear River.
While sea turtles might [...]